Pure as a Lily single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1880... 1880 Pure as a Lily
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Romance of Sydney and Melbourne. Alice Mervyn is called away from her Sydney girls' school to see her dying father in Melbourne. She arrives too late and flees her step-mother's plot to marry her to an unscrupulous friend. She falls in love with and marries one of her rescuers, eventually winning his wealthy squatters father's approval. Slight. (PB).

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 15 no. 178 March 1880 Z1010672 1880 periodical issue 1880 pg. 375-378
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